Wanted: 1m aviation crew

[southernmtn]

The following news is from the Singapore State's Times website, Wanted: 1m aviation crew (http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Money/Story/STIStory_579328.html) :

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Sep 16, 2010
Wanted: 1m aviation crew
The global commercial aviation industry will need more than a million pilots and maintenance crew in the next 20 years. -- ST PHOTO: DESMOND LIM

SINGAPORE - THE global commercial aviation industry will need more than a million pilots and maintenance crew in the next 20 years, with Asia accounting for almost 40 per cent of demand, Boeing said on Thursday.

The US plane maker estimated world demand at 466,650 pilots and 596,500 maintenance personnel from 2010 to 2029, of whom 180,600 pilots and 220,000 mechanics would be needed in Asia.

Boeing estimates that there are currently about 233,000 pilots and more than 100,000 mechanics and engineers working for airlines worldwide.

Within Asia, China will account for nearly 40 per cent of the demand, followed by South-east Asia at around 23 per cent, said Roei Ganzarski, chief customer officer at Boeing Training and Flight Services. North America will need 97,350 pilots and 137,000 maintenance personnel while Europe will require 94,800 and 122,000, respectively.

Mr Ganzarski said at a news conference in Singapore that the industry would have to ramp up the training of pilots as well as aircraft engineers and mechanics to meet the forecast demand without compromising safety standards.

'There is a significant number of people that we're going to have to train and the infrastructure right now in the Asia Pacific is not necessarily a scale that can address this entire requirement,' Mr Ganzarski said. -- AFP

Because of such a demand, pilots and training personnel should not be selling themselves short.

[Slasher]

....without compromising safety standards.

Since there allready compromising that now its therefore set to get worse.

The mobs that will get qualitey pilots will be those who offer the best salary and T&Cs, not how big or shiney there new wonderjets are.

[jimmygill]

Because of such a demand, pilots and training personnel should not be selling themselves short.

Well said, but if journalists can sell themselves whats wrong with pilots selling themselves.

Short selling is a skill very few have... it means selling something when you don't actually have that something, like me selling you my red ferrari for cash.

Pilots are not selling themselves short, they are being short changed.

[Henry09]

This shortage has been predicted for many years. Quite how the training system is going to cope is unclear. Many training schools in Asia have just been set up as cash cows with little regard to providing \'a quality product\'.